January 08, 2012

For those of you who want to enjoy the everyday creativity Chronodex brings, but already moved on to digital note taking or scheduling, I've made Chronodex available for you in digital format.

GhostWriter Notes iPad app is one of the best digital notebooks you can find on a tablet. Since the creation of Chronodex, many of you want to apply the idea in your own preferred paper and notebook size and format, some of you adapted it into stickers, printed on tracing paper. Now you can have the same fun on your iPad, just download the Chronodex Daily GTD for GhostWriter Notes JPG, save it in your photo library, choose the image from your GhostWriter Notes "paper" setting, that's it. (Update: seems like the same JPG file works very well on another iPad app called Noteshelf too)

GhostWriter Notes is like a scrapbooking page with dozens of nice features you can play with your Chronodex core. I love the choice of ink pen which gives you very fine lines to color your pies. You can simply use the Chronodex core as your mindmapping center on GhostWriter as well. If you look into the details of the format, I'm sure you will find your very own creative use of the core.

January 07, 2012

Thanks for all your enthusiastic comments about Chronodex, it will take me a little more time to respond to your comments. As of today, there are 28,000 downloads of Chronodex! Thanks a lot. Honestly thanks to all of your prayers, almost like a miracle, my Dad smiled like a kid a few days ago, never seen him like that in the past few years. I'm sure his regression brought his mind back to the old days before his illness, evidented by his choice of language (he now speaks Mandarin rather than Cantonese, he never spoke to us in Mandarin before, although it is the same written language). He muttered "beautiful kid (漂亮的孩子)" to my son with a nice smile. Thank God! I think he is not suffering anymore although physically he is incapable of doing anything, it is a beauty to see him regresses to a younger age in his mind.

I realized many of you don't have Traveler's Notebook and may not like the format of a dated diary, so here you go an undated version of Chronodex fully integrated with GTD in mind. It is to be used in A5 sized pages, the PDF file is to be printed on A4 paper giving you two A5 pages, the JPG file is just an A5 sized page.

The reason why I included a JPG file is that somebody would like to use the Chronodex core as a template on their tablet. If you are a GhostWriter Notes iPad app user, I've created a specific paper sized correct to the app at 916 x 768 pixels, you can download and save the Chronodex Daily GTD for GhostWriter Notes JPG in your photo library, open up GhostWriter, press the Paper button, choose "Custom paper from photo album". Enjoy!

Feel free to explore how to use it, I totally love this format and hope you like it too. Remember to visit the Chronodex Facebook page.

Walter Isaacson: Steve JobsLove hearing the stories all over again, some of them especially what happened in the past few years are new to me. Most importantly it is a closer portrait of Steve than all other books about him. Isaacson recorded audios during his interview with Steve, check out 60 minutes special and you will hear Steve's own voice. RIP Steve. (****)